Doviende showed me to a place
called the Sugar Refinery on saturday. Good stuff. Had the
Colourifics (Yes a canadian band, I think. Assuming they put
the 'u' in their name...) playing. Also had great beer!
Mainly because it was made by the Storm Brewery!!!

Sidewalks

Well it seems that the great Perl Journey with Larry Wall
and friends left the vancouver harbour today. You could
tell they were in town. We actually saw chalk markings on
the sidewalks that said stuff such as "rm -rf python"... If
your curious, they left on a cruise ship from this
port.
Unfortunately we saw them leave since the view you see here,
is only a few floors up from our office. :-/ Lucky
bastards!

Adding lots of miscellaneous methods for many widgets. Stuff
like get info from this widget. Also started to add line
wrapping for labels today. Its coming along alright, just a
little bit more todo. CTK is almost working with SAT now, I
hope to have it working by the end of Friday.

Stuff

Not much else happening except work at the moment. I hope
really soon I can post more here than just CTK news. (c:

Well, back from Japan, it was alot of fun. I really want to
go back there again. I picked up quite a few Japanese
phrases and vocab. I had just started to learn Japanese,
but I have learned more in the 4 days that I was there, than
in the last couple of weeks before, in which I have been
studing this "learning japanese" course I had bought at the
local book store.

Its good to back though, there is alot of work to be done
back at the office.

Jet Lag

I slept in today, got up around 3pm. Not too unsual, except
that I went to bed around 11:30pm. Got 15.5 hours of
sleep. My body is still on Japan time. So gonna stay up
tonight all night and go to bed early tomorrow to try and
fix it.

Code!

Adding a bunch of stuff to CTK, mostly methods, but also
fixed a couple of bugs. So far I have added, borders to
container widgets, made scrollbars disappear when they are
not needed, fixed a couple clist bugs, added
widget->sensitive, and added the methods
ctk_editable_get_chars, ctk_entry_get_text,
ctk_entry_set_max_length, ctk_clist_prepend,
ctk_clist_insert, ctk_clist_select_row,
ctk_clist_unselect_row, ctk_clist_remove,
ctk_scale_set_digits, ctk_scale_set_draw_value... so far. :)

Day 2 of the show is here... Quite a few Debian-jp guys are
hanging out at the booth talking to our Japanese team. They
really liked
CTK! :) Seems a little more busy today, and it seems they
found the air conditioning switch. Yesterday was extremely
hot. Feels much better today.

Last night we went to the main land, into downtown Tokyo.
We walked around Shinbashi. Makes Times Square feel small.
Tokyo is HUGE! Definetly felt the Blade Runner feel there.
They had main streets but most of the stuff was happening in
the ally's. Lots of people!

Tonight is our last night so we should be having a good
time. For now, back to manning the booth. :)

So far the show is going good. Met a few of the Debian-jp
developers, a bunch of nice people! :) It is extremely hot
on the floor, it is quite muggy in Tokyo... There are quite
a few people walking around, seems to be alot of business
people and students mostly.

Doviende is coding like crazy
trying to get stuff done that people back at home are
waiting for. Unfortunatly we don't have a camera up for a
view.

Tokyo is quite cool though, last night we went for a more
traditional meal, sat on the floor, that kind of thing. Ate
alot of different types of dishes. We are on this man made
island just off the main land, so we got a very cool view of
downtown. On Saturday we will be downtown to see electric
city. This place has many more gadgets attached to
everything. The toilet is electric with about 4 buttons
that I can use to, er, adjust spraying devices. :-/

But there is a cool Blade Runner type feel to the city which
is quite fun!

Well, I'm in Japan now, on the floor of the Tokyo Linux
World Expo. Its kinda small, about half the size of the
New York show, but still alot of big players. Of course
Turbo is a big sponsor, redhat is here, compaq, fujitsu,
NEC, VA, and quite a few others.

We are just getting our booth setup, and have networking
setup now. Everything is looking good so far...

I will update more when stuff starts happening. :)

CTK

I got about 2 hours of programming done on the plane, as
much as my battery would allow. Added clear, freeze, thaw,
get_text, and set_text to the clist widget. Also got modal
setting done for windows.

WIll charge it back up and do some more coding over the next
couple days.

Well, I'm off to Tokyo tomorrow for the Linux World Expo in
Japan. I'll keep diary posts here to update what is
happening. Should be a good trip. I havn't been there
before so it should be alot of fun. Only going until
Saturday, so the jet lag will be nasty.

CTK

Havn't had time to do much with it, I have been making sure
everything will be taken care of at the office while away in
Japan. Will be coding on the plane. :)

Life

I have found playing with liveice and icecast is alot of
fun. Mixing music is truly an art form! :) And being on
DSL, I can actually have listners.

Also found that my Secure Locate (slocate) utility was in
the Open
Source Metrics article. Contributing something useful
is quite rewarding. :)

Crunch time... Its that time again. Hopefully we will have
some good crunch time stories to tell. Many will be
spending their lives at the office for the next few weeks.

CTK

Now in the midst of adding more features and fixing bugs in
CTK. Just added alignment options (CtkMisc) for labels.
Fixed a couple bugs with vbox and hboxes, frames, and
scales. Still lots of work todo...

Things are coming along. All of the widgets are pretty much
done (at least the ones to be used in Storm v2.) So just
cleaning it up a bit and adding methods for each widget that
are still missing.

Today I made it possible to put notebook tabs on the left of
the page instead of just the top. Right and bottom
positioning still has to be done. This also let me find a
resize bug with the notebooks, which was the cause of an
infinite loop which occured when shrinking the window down
too small.

Also made combo boxes scrollable which works quite well.

Stuff

Not much else happening... Going to be a busy weekend being
the last weekend before the marked deadline for Storm v2
beta. Which will actually be a pre-alpha, but that is okay.

Then I leave for japan on tuesday. Will be doing much
coding on the plane! Its a 9 hour 45 minute flight, so jet
lag will be horrid. I leave on the 9th at 12pm, and arrive
in japan on the 10th at 2pm! Gotta love timezones... :)

Tables are 95% done. Just have a couple bugs with the
resizing of them, otherwise its working well.

Soon I can actually start to test it some more, add the
missing methods for each widget, and probably emit some more
signals on specific events, such as say when you click on
the clist title, it should emit a signal so you can do funky
things like sorting the column, etc.

.oO(sleep...oo^ | oo^...)

Each night I keep saying to myself that I am going to goto
bed a little earlier so that I can actually get up at a
decent time, but that like never happens. Thus the reason
for usually being the first diary post of the day.

make mental note, a long time from now:
my_diary_post_date = diary_post_date - 1;